On 23 Aug 2009, at 10:38 pm, John Cowan wrote:
The idea is to speed up string lookups. Currently the a-list maps
strings
to values, which means I must use assoc to search it. If it mapped
symbols to values instead, I could use the faster assq. I'd rather
intern
the strings once and have done
Hi, Fadi!
Hm... how did you invoke make? Did you pass "PLATFORM=mingw"?
>
> Out of curiosity, why is Chicken using these functions instead of the
> standard C rand/srand ? There shouldn't be any difference
> functionality-wise AFAIK.
Because they provide better randomness. Originally it was th
> Hm... how did you invoke make? Did you pass "PLATFORM=mingw"?
Yes, I used the following build command, nothing special really:
mingw32-make PREFIX=c:/chicken PLATFORM=mingw
C_COMPILER_OPTIMIZATION_OPTIONS="-O2 -pipe"
Anyway, I think I found where the problem lies: Line 86 in extras.scm
contai